Critic Reviews

Decap Attack is one of the Genesis' hidden gems. It was largely ignored back then in favor of a certain blue hedgehog, but it deserves a second look. Vic Tokai took their initial concept and refined it to create a near-masterpiece. If they tried to refine it any more, they probably would have messed it up. It's a good thing they quit when they were a head. (Sorry, I couldn't avoid that last pun.)

The biggest drawback with Decap-attack is that however well presented, it's still only a platforms-and-ladders game, and as such is hardly original. Every element has been seen before in one for or another, and Chuck's island romp adds nothing new to an already over-used genre. It's still great fun though and if your cartridge collection is totally devoid of platform games, you could do worse than invest in a copy. If not, then it's nothing to lose your head over.

The game is pretty difficult. You get a tiny amount of health and only three lives to work with. In that respect, don’t expect to get through on your first try. At the same time, some of the levels give you the feeling that you were cheated a life as the controls do not always cooperate the way you want them to. In closing, Decap Attack a fairly standard platformer that I would not go out of my way to play. It is relatively enjoyable, but does not do enough to add to the genre that would make it worth buying.

In this offbeat platform game, you control a mummy with a head in his chest and a skull on his shoulders. Now there's something you don't see everyday! The game has a distinctive cartoonish horror theme, but some of the characters and bosses simply defy description. The gameplay is more typical. You jump from platform to platform while punching and jumping on enemies. The goal is to reach the end of the stage, although it's not always obvious where that is. You can pick up powerups, which become accessible on a separate screen thanks to the painfully awkward user interface. You also have the power to throw your head, which is a lot of fun since you can take out several enemies at once. Wierd music fits the game well. On the negative side, the stages are pretty generic and unexciting. There is an interesting bonus stage, but you really don't have much control in it. Decap Attack tries to be different, but it's just another mediocre platform game.

Outside of having a clever naming system, DeCap Attack pretty much took the worst elements of every platform game you could think of at the time, put them in a blender, urinated in it and gave it to unsuspecting parents to give to their children for Christmas back in 1991. Thanks, Mom.